Hey ladies! If you work from home and have little ones with you, without help of childcare, what is it that you do?

-How flexible are the hours?

-How stressful is the work load?

-Do you make decent enough money and/or supplemental income to your hubby’s earnings?

-How manageable is working versus caring for small children at the same time?

I need ideas! We have three under 5 of which our youngest is just a few months old and nursing constantly around the clock (will not take bottles, will just scream for hours instead) no family nearby to help out during the day, won’t be able to afford daycare or a nanny starting out, and we’ve been tight on money but “okay” on one income for years. We got a little lax on our budgeting the last few months due to being so busy with the holidays, and when we checked we realized that our budget was off. So we started looking into it and our grocery bill has gone from 800$ a month to 1200$ a month even tho we have not changed our shopping habits. Gas has gone from $4.50 a gallon to 7.25$ a gallon 😭 our electric bill went from $300 a month to $500, they told us it’s due to an increase of their own business expenses so they’re raising their rates. And the final kicker is that due to fires in the area our home insurance dropped us, we were forced to go to the only insurance available who would still take us with all the fires..which is government/state insurance… and just got our mortgage statement. It’s been raised $1100 a month. With Christmas coming we have already bought our kids Christmas gifts so add that onto all this and now we are reeling. We should have been paying stricter attention to the rising cost obviously. Now we are trying to figure out what the heck to do and I feel like it might be a good idea if I could make some money from home to help cushion the blow while we try to figure out what the heck to do. My husband has been dissatisfied with his job for a long time, they haven’t been treating him well, so he’s looking for better higher paying jobs but obviously that takes time too! I want to help, but I can’t unless it’s a job at home. Anyways, I’d love to hear from y’all about what you do!! Thank you 😊